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Cairn energy: the worst oil company you've never heard of
At Climate Camp last week our main target was the Royal Bank of Scotland for it’s part in bankrolling climate change, but a secondary one was Edinburgh based Cairn Energy. Cairn aren’t a famous name like BP or Shell, but right now they’re at the heart of one of the biggest battles that the environmental [...]
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Just how big is the US spill disaster?
As we’ve previously reported, the US is currently facing probably its worst environmental disaster of all time, in the shape of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A disaster caused by the corporate greed of BP, determined to drill no matter the consequences, and the incompetence of government regulators compromised by oil company money. But just [...]
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Obama and the spill
As Leftfield previously reported, the US is currently undergoing one of its worst environmental disasters of all time. Last month, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico started an oil spill of gargantuan proportions. For weeks huge quantities of oil have been pouring into a pristine natural environment, devastating [...]
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"America's Chernobyl"
One of the worst environmental disasters in US history is currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, and the reactions to it are an indictment of the capitalist oil industry and their bought-and-paid-for politicians. After an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig, operated by BP, an underwater oil well is currently discharging 790,000 – [...]
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War crimes: a great get rich quick scheme
Looking for a quick way to raise some extra cash? Have you ever considered lying to the world and then sending over a million innocent civilians and British soldiers to their deaths? Because it’s really pretty lucrative in the long run. Former Prime Monster Tony Blair has been raking it in since he moved out [...]
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